Studies in mediaevel halakhah in honor of Stephen M. Passamaneck
By: edited by Alyssa Gray and Bernard Jackson
Contributors: Jewish Law Association
Series: Jewish Law Association studies -- 17; Jewish Law Association studies -- 17.
Publisher: Jewish Law Association; [Published and distributed by D. Charles Publications]; Published and distributed by Deborah Charles Publications; On behalf of the Jewish Law Association.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780952893875; 9780952893882
Subjects: Festschriften; Jewish law; History
Notes: "Stephen M. Passamaneck : Bibliography"--p.7-10.
Table of contents: title: Dr. Stepneh Passamaneck: an appreciation / Dvora E. Weisbert; title: Male piety, female bodies: men, women and ritual immersion in medieval Ashkenaz / Judith Baskin; title: The attitude of Jewish scholars to Jewish conversion to Islam and Christianity during the last century of the Ottoman empire / Leah Borstin-Makovetsky; title: Polysemous sugvot as a source of rishonic debates about normative halaklah / Michael Chernick; title: The Talmudic principle, if one comes forth to slay you, forestall by slaying him in Israeli public policy: a responsum by Rabbi Hayyim David Halevi / David Elllenson; title: The socioeconomics of Babylonian heresy / Yaakov Elman; title: Duress and modaah in the law of sales / Abraham M. Fuss; title: Rabbi Yitshak Alfasi in the literature of the Yemenite Jews / Aharon Gaimani; title: From R. Judah bar Ilai to the Heter I ska / Hillel Gamoran; title: Married women and tsedaqah in medieval Jewish law: gender and the discourse of legal obligation / Alyssa Gray; title: Medieval halakhah: reflections on periodization and the problem of the agunah / Bernard S. Jackson; title: Revealing rabbinic revision: meikara as a marker for legal change in Talmud Bavli / Aaron D. Panken; title: Ethics and law in Maimonides' rulings / Yosef Rivlin; title: On the absence of method in Jewish bioethics: Barri Yehezkel Landau on autopsy / Mark Washofsky; title: Historical landmarks in the tradition of Moroccan Jewish family law: the case of leverite marriage / Elimelech Westreich.